Applied AI Engineer — AI-Powered Research Navigator

Euro-BioImaging ERIC

Turku

Hybrid

EUR 41,000 - 49,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Euro-BioImaging ERIC is hiring an Applied AI Engineer in Turku, Finland, for a fixed-term role up to 31 December 2028 with possible extension. Gross salary starts from €4,000/month, negotiable by experience.

You will lead design, development, and evaluation of AI-enabled access services across EU research infrastructures. You will translate user and scientific needs into concrete product requirements, drive usability testing and ensure responsible-AI practices, while collaborating with a

Qualifications

A relevant higher education degree in human-computer interaction, service or interaction design, computer science, software engineering, information systems, artificial intelligence, data science or another relevant field is expected.
Candidates with equivalent substantial professional experience are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

Lead user research, persona development, user journeys, interaction design, prototyping and usability testing.
Translate scientific use cases and research-infrastructure access workflows into product requirements, acceptance criteria and test scenarios.
Shape the Research Navigator from early concepts and prototypes through iterative development to a production-ready service.
Design and evaluate conversational and AI-assisted user interactions, including how recommendations, evidence, uncertainty and explanations are presented to users.
Develop components for RAG, agentic search, structured generation, tool calling and human-in-the-loop workflows, keeping an updated modular model layer.
Develop or contribute to MCP adapters, AI-facing APIs, and reusable integration components for open-source models.
Establish systematic user-centered evaluation of the Navigator, combining usability, accessibility, task success and trustworthiness.
Contribute to responsible-AI implementation, particularly transparency, explainability, privacy, accessibility, human oversight and user trust.